Julia Schwanholz

Alexander Reichwein

Holger Janusch

Witold Mucha

Daniel Lorberg

Turning Points: Challenges for Western Democracies in the 21st Century centers around the strikingly under-researched concept of turning points and its application in political science, including various theories, fields, and sub-disciplines. The chapters provide theoretical discussion and conceptual clarity by distinguishing a set of turning points at different analytical levels. Based on a wide range of case studies, the authors illustrate where, when and how different types of turning points occur (or not) against the backdrop of current challenges in and for Western democracies. The conceptual and empirical variety of the volume allows scholars and practitioners in policymaking to develop and apply their own frameworks when dealing with turning point dynamics.

Challenges for Western Democracies in the 21st Century

Turning Points

Felix Rösch

Audrey Alejandro

Knud Erik Jørgensen

Helen Turton

This book is about European IR theoretical traditions, their origins, and key figures. Theorizing is among the most important activities that take place within scientific disciplines. Scholars therefore routinely talk/debate about the discipline of IR and its theories, theories are often used to form the pedagogical backbone of IR and theories are also a key part of scholarly identities. Over time, theories crystalize in to schools of thought, strands of theorizing and theoretical traditions. This book and the volumes that will follow focus on the origins and trajectories of theoretical traditions, and key figures of IR thought in Europe in the 20th Century. The authors are situated in Europe, and it is thus the origins and trajectories of European theoretical traditions, its intellectual history and contemporary forms of theoretical knowledge today, that are on the agenda. In order to achieve this ambitious aim, we opt for a transnational sociological history approach, thus going beyond the national lens through which IR has been predominantly studied. The series will have an integrative function and contribute to a globalized discourse on IR as a discipline. The key benefits of this first volume is that it outlines IR theoretical traditions for the first time ever, provides a novel framework for exploring IR’s theories, and contributes to define and strengthen the European identity of IR. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars of IR.

Reappraising European IR Theoretical Traditions

Mischa Hansel

Die Beiträge in diesem Band bieten unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf die Internationale Schutzverantwortung. Die R2P erweist sich offensichtlich als eine robuste und dynamische Norm. Eine Norm, die sich trotz permanenter Diskussionen, Anfechtungen und Streitfragen und trotz des Missbrauchs für interessengeleitete Machtpolitik doch stetig weiterentwickelt. Und die ein Referenzpunkt für Staaten, Institutionen und nichtstaatliche Akteure bei deren Begründungen von als "humanitär" ausgewiesenen Interventionen bleibt. Es wird aber auch klar, dass diese Normunternehmer von sehr unterschiedlichen Motiven geleitet werden, sehr unterschiedliche Interessen verfolgen und die R2P auch sehr unterschiedlich interpretieren.

Die Internationale Schutzverantwortung: Etabliert. Herausgefordert. Gescheitert?

Alexander Reichwein

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